Tribune of Shelby from Shelby, Montana (2024)

September 28, 1939

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Tribune of Shelbyi

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Shelby, Montana

Issue Date:

Thursday, September 28, 1939

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10

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0 TRIBUNE of SHELBY Ma i i Brown Buys a Blouse A Globe Sketch Book A A ft' their vi he OM dis A REQU IP A AZ MOLLENDi PACIIC ILK I REE lADieltnsoti to those who fill out and send us this coupon a I Name Address i ti State County! i ns 1 JUNIOR PATROL By Quin Hall wn 1 a ihe talker which he talked so to find out Brown was one of the I I a A ho ri her sp jut utuni we ien ti bi A 32 page illustrated booklet written with scientific accuracy showing the exact con stituents of western soils what are the handi caps to profitable crop growing and what can be done to surmount them Packed full of valuable information! 'A he ug de kin he 1 1 a Blended Whiskey 90 Proof 75 Grata Nss tral Spirit Copyri8ht 1939 The Wilkee omN tea Aladdin ScheeUy Paaatytvaala I I 1 1 tl tl ei rrol Jre I iter co 'hie he I AAIlI hl fe RIGHT Pr fio 1 family and the present Naegele print ing nrm was estaonsnea tainty it would be all right Made moiselle need give herself no anxiety dark suspicions crystalized She was a helpless victim of Gallic cupidity They meant to keep her money and had no intentions of pro ducing the blouse any sort of blouse All too soon Monday arrived but not the blouse They were getting excited about it at the pension too for by this time Mary Brown had shared her appre hensions with Madame and her daugh ter who naturally were loath to be lieve that such chicanery could exist in their part of the world Her lovely holiday had been com pletely ruined first by the ungallant behavior of the sailor and now this tragedy of the blouse She wished she had never set eyes on Monte Carlo No doubt the whole thing was meant as a lesson to her Grim lipped she did her packing that Tuesday morning and directly lunch was over and she Jiad paid her hotel bill she made her way yet once again but definitely for the last time to the all too familiar bus stop It seemed as though everybody in Nice was bound for Monte Carlo that afternoon They were queued up in solid formation and it was some time before she got a seat but it VJOUDER ftoWWE THIS PliSflE MNK ur to the selfsame whiskey us Wilkens enjoy among ourselves! been distillers since 1887 WO BSOPETAY VIST 16 steeps spi ke is Prepared with extraordinary care and at considerable expense this booklet will be mailed Anaconda Sales Company Anaconda Mont Dept I Please send me free of charge your booklet Dirt" A it Uppi defy Not all the thrills one gets traveling itX a vew hours iM OR TOE id ica tes la It tl to Pt 950 Qt $175 NO 237C No 237E bn LCitrit She would have to go over to Monte Carlo again whether or no and if the blouse ready she would make that paunchy little man with the tricky eyes give her back her money Suppose Ire suppose he said she had never paid him any money? So again she took the bus to Monte Carlo a trip that was becoming very hateful to her This time she did not go any nearer the Cafe de Paris than the bus stop but headed straight for the Boulevard des Moulins It was the ravaged accomplice who had taken her measurements who came to serve this time and appeared never to have set eyes on Mary Brown before Monsieur was not here he had gone to Cannes for the day The woman spoke no English at all but finally light began to break on her and she produced the grubby little book in which she had made her entries Mademoiselle Yes 1 Mary could see the entry for herself and noted with satisfaction that it was marked but where was the blouse? The woman assured her it would reach her in due time I am leaving on partir on Mardl Yes it would be all right of a cer thlng in its path the visitor is inev itably overcome with awe (In ten years the glacier has advanced almost 800 feet In summer the pace is some ten inches a day!) As I walked along the winding pass age to the eerie ice grotto at the far end my observations of the silence the weird light filtering down through the tons of ice' above were suddenly cut short by a tremendous crash and rumble from overhead Rushing to the mouth of the tunnel in great alarm I learned that one of the great jagged pinnacles of ice had broken off and crashed down the slope of the glacier just missing the passage entrance by a matter of Inches And so but for this narrow escape I would not be bringing you this tale but rather would have ended my days in the coldest kind of IB iTOWZSJt 70 IOR7W47E TUAN AM Ten minutes later Mary excitine some attention at roulette tables She been able to get a seat but she had reached over and put all her plaques on black and she had left them there because she know any better The wheel was spun so quickly the croupier called out things she understand raked in and paid out faster than one could hardly think and then the wheel was set in motion again Although it had spun five times since first she threw down her plaques and each time black had come up Sixteen thousand francs now lay to her credit on the green baize One of the women she had followed said hoarsely to the other: girl must be mad Black simply come up Perhaps the croupier thought it was unlikely too He glanced at Mary Brown and smiled with uplifted eye brows and a sort of spell was broken Elbowing right and left she leaned over and swept the lot into her hand bag It was perfectly true that with the next spin of the wheel red did come up But before that happened Mary Brown was well on her way to the calsse to cash in After that she was very nearly sick in the cloakroom but not too overcorhe to stow away her ill gotten gains in the little pouch she wore un der her skirt for the safe keeping of valuables Sixteen thousand francs all the way back to Nice she did feverish sums in her mind which came out as near as not to the tidy sum of 100 pounds It was frightening it was almost horrible But something else was frightening too Here is was nearly 5 and her train went at 5:55 There ought to be plenty of time but the return bus suddenly began to develop that species of engine trouble which al lowed it merely to creep on its way with frequent changes of gear ana much blue smoke and language from the driver It was 5:30 before it rolled down the hill into Nice and there was nothing for it now but a taxi to the pension to collect her luggage and hope for the best Thank heaven she was all packed and the hotel bill paid Of the making of wonders there is sometimes no end but they were crowding a little bit too thick and fast now There was already a taxi waiting before the pension when Mary Brown arrived a taxi piled with someone luggage and her own and a young man in naval uniform hopping around JULIACAt punct until the end that she found out why The gay little city by the bright blue sea was distinctly en fete A Bataille des leurs was in progress and all the shops were closed including of course the one that had taken her money but produced no blouse It was then that a sort of tiger broke loose in the bosom of Mary Brown and tore the gentle sweetness of her na ture limb from limb She was so wild that she scarcely knew and certainly did not care what she did Almost it seemed as though that thieving shop keeper had organized the fete on pur pose to outwit her How how could she get even with him and with the American navy too? or the two outrages had now com pletely merged as one and each were I indistinguishable from each other Skirting the carnival route in order to get back to the bus stop she had to pick her way through hundreds of parked cars past the Hotel de Paris and past the casino But suddenly she stopped dead and a harsh little laugh broke from her lips She had remembered something that afternoon when she was so happy ago now it she had confided to Dick Chambers the sur prising fact that she had never been inside the casino and what was more never intended to enter any place of that description She told him it was against her principles and he had applauded her He had said she in his estimation that he like his sisters to gamble even for fun any more than he would like them to form the co*cktail drinking habit Well she could get even with Lieu tenant Chambers now and with that thief of a shopkeeper and in a way that ought to make them both sick and sorry if ever they got to hear what their duplicity had egged her on to do She would complete the destruc tion they had begun for her She would utterly ruin herself' In spite of the Bataille des leurs crowds of people were streaming into the casino and Mary tiger swept her along with them Once inside however even with the tiger to back her up her passion for self destruction might have fizzled out except for the fact that everybody else seemed to be taking this dramatic ex perience as a matter of normal routine So she tagged along in the wake of two of her own countrywomen who from their appearance might have been school teachers and did as they did albeit with a wildly beating heart They went into the free salle where all it cost was to show passport and thence to a calsse where you handed over rench banknotes and got some plaques marked with in return By ELIZABETH YORK MILLER Copyright 1939: By News Syndicate Co Inc IN TWO PART TWO Never before in her life had Mary Brown got into conversation with a Soung man who had not been properly itroduced but as has been pointed out she was becoming perhaps not disorganized so much as reorganized She smiled and was lost How surprised and incredulous her bosom pals at home would be when she told them about this adventure maybe you believe it but once I did pick up a man Or rather I guess it was he that picked me up tta wns an American naval officer and it happened in Monte Carlo where I bought this blouse wearing was off a battle cruiser that was lying in the harbor at Villefranche noticed it from the bus Oh yes he was ever so nice really once We got to talking been in a motor accident and hurt his foot and he was staying in the English hospital just outside Nice A funny thing noticed that from the bus too They call it the English hospital but it flies the American flag as well as the British and perhaps that sort of made nej pf rhnmmv Whatever it was something did make them 'get chummy and within five minutes Mary Brown had gar nered the above mentioned informa tion and quife a lot besides His name was Dick Chambers Lieut Richard Chambers when pinned down to it although he pronounced it Mary Brown was not surprised for she was familiar with American navy films and their ec centricities She was sorry now for the way she had snubbed him in the Boulevard des Moulins It seemed that he had only been going to ask her to help him choose a few things for his sisters back home in Maryland No use offer ing her services now for he had ac quired what he wanted He showed" her a beflowered box he had shoved under the table It might be that the contents of nrnniri travel no further in the direction of Maryland than the hospital which abounded in pretty nurses but Lieutenant Chambers tell Mary Brown his uncertainty on that subject She was pretty herself but not one of those chance acquaintances of the opposite sex who are all over a fellow in two minutes She rush to meet his friendly overtures and he had to let her pay her own share iof the refreshments or there would have been a first class row One thing led to another though and Dick Chambers learned quite a lot about Mary Brown too especially when he said he had a full month leave starting 10 days from now and intended to spend it in London where he know a living soul And then they found they were both leaving Nice on the same day by the same train the Calais Ventimille Express That was an interesting coincidence if you like They were going the same way now too for he had to be back in his hospital bed by 6 and she had to sit down to dinner in her pension at 7 or risk tne mairre pleasure Dick Chambers was a was rather a pity for efooriilTT that Ha fnrffnt the address of Mary pension or make arrangements for a subse quent rendezvous before the bus round ed the last turning after Villefranche when lo the proud flags of the two great English speaking nations were revealed flapping in the breeze and he had arrived at his destination The bus pulled up with a screech of brakes and the conductor broke rudely into the happy monologue he shouted as one who would brook no argument gosh where I get off I when am I going to see you again What about tomorrow? Mary Brown nodded and blushed but the conductor having any protracted farewells He shoved the disabled sailor off his bus with the fearful efficiency of the rench once they have made up their minds on a subject i time and place tomorrow the evicted one managed to fling over his shoulder! Mary Brown blushed' more deeply and nodded more vigorously ft I The bus shot forward again and withdrawing from the I smiling sym pathy of her fellow travelers she reso lutely turned her scarlet face to the window and studied the landscape Already tomorrow loomed large in anticipation And the day after and the day after that perhaps She wished she had her Easter costume now and the ravishing blouse to wear with it They were going to travel all the way back to England on the same train Was that quite proper? Well she really care whether it was proper or not She like him and what was more important he seemed to like her On the way over in the bus he had got quite personal about her looks and said he nadnt noticed when first he saw her staring into the shop window how pretty she was Perhaps it was having taken off her hat he said He thought her hair whs lovely The next afternoon and the next found Mary Brown sitting at one of the little tables onhe terrace of the Cafe de Paris in Monte Carlo trying to look unconcerned with a copy of the Continental Daily Mail and a cup of chocolate to keep her company The first day well there might have been some reason why he come The second she was so humiliated that she felt she could never look the world in the face again Perhaps it true that he was going to England on the same train but If it was true she knew the tone she would take if she happened to run into him She wouid give Mm the cut direct Or would that show him too plainly how cruelly he had hurt her? Lieutenant Chambers (Dick to her no longer) had behaved as though he more than liked her and she knew that! after her first standoffishness she had let him know that she recip vptv near asking daughter at the pension to ring up the English hospital and make an anonymous inquiry for Lieutenant health but when it came right down to it jshe coulan It until the end of the week she suddenly remembered the blouse It come But she couldn't ask daughter to ring up about that cither because she noticed the name of the shop Her feelings now were considerably mixed and it was difficult to know where humiliation on account of the fickle sailor ended and righteous in dignation began because of the blouse GEE I SnitSH6Rrl40! I LL HAMt IO SEE TITIOACASi 1 it'STtwks? Br on one foot with anxiety while Madame and her daughter and Alphonse the porter nut on a triple Sister Anne act 4Cj Lb IvlaUvXllUlovLIv Uv wen you are a chump! why didn you ring me up at the hospital? You knew where I was but taken me a blessed" week to locate you ringing UP pretty well every hotel in The explanation of that was per Arrlvr eimnlA am 4 4 i ti AU UUX1ACU OUl tenant Chambers Dick once more) had forgotten that he was due for an ray the next afternqfn when he should have met Mary BrSwfl at the Cafe de and for four days after that they had kept him in bed on account of an ankle bone that setting properly 6 did think you might have come to see me" he reproached her Mary Brown speak There was a lump in her throat and tears in her eyes Later on she might tell him all about it or she? Anyway there time now if they were to make that train He bundled her into the taxi Were all her things here? And then daughter came flying down the steps brandishing a small parcel blouse Mademoiselle! It came by post while you were 7000 More Workers On Jobs in Montana Than in ebruary More than 7000 Montana men and women now are employed "than were employed in ebruary 1939 Barclay Craighead chairman of the unemploy ment compensation commission de clared at Helena recently In April May and June 1939 work ers in industries subject to the un employment compensation law earned $25091000 a payroll increase of $2 334000 over the first three months of 1939 and an increase of over $1264000 for the same three months of 1938 Placements by the em ployment offices were 15224 in the first eight months of 1939 as compared to 15003 in the same months of 1938 but placements were in more perma nent and better paying jobs The ac tive file of people seeking positions through the employment offices was 7141 less on Aug 31 1939 than on the same date in 1938 This indicates these people are now em ployed red Naegele member of the Naegele printing firm at Helena recently cele brated the 50th anniversary of his arrival in capital city Naegele came from Minneapolis to work as a printer on a Helena news paper Shortly thereafter his father Lambert Naegele Sr arrived with his Aiuconda Sales Company Anaconda Montana7 70 CAREUL UWZN GQOSSWf AND to aid TUOSE jn danger IPDM19E BE LOND TO DUMB ANIMALS BWIDS MUMOy i wyjss 70 be mmUL VBLE IM bi pe GEOGRAPHIC ODDITIES LA KE TITICACA on the border between Peru and Bolivia is the highest navigable body of water in the World It is ILoAS feetab ove sea level I a Ml WNT TO VWT vOR LOAN AAt 140 AMD I TO GGT IT RIGHT 7 i wt vnnn nxmcac WIlKEN By HI WATTS MOUNTAIN THAT er cuacier at Cirm through strange lands are provided by majestic palaces cathedrals or masterpieces of art More often the vastness and marvel of nature herself far surpasses anything man can con ceive One such experience stands out in my mind when for the first time I gazed at the "mountain that near Grindelwald in the heart Switzerland Actually the is a glacier formed of dazzling ice in a gigantic mass of fantastic shapes Its size is overwhelming and when one realizes that this great area of snow and ice has been relentlessly creeping onward throughout the years sweeping every 1: 2 Hr I vSh mH ill 1 II 1 I I I iij I I I I I I I Ml I 1 Wil A sai Ir VI i I IM" MY PRDUD 7 I' 1 I TXfl 'ad jHK IPGETTHg I 7 A 'I 1 ww SkSsS AHO HONOR) Ml MMhmbi ByHAv has 5 1 IS OUT it II iL uW lt AML I I I I Ll I Iff Zz to.

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